Oh man, there are SO MANY good old keyboards, old keyboards are better than modern ones!

The problem is that there are too many good old keyboards, so I need to prioritize, which I want more than others, or which ones is better to buy at certain periods, depending on supply and demand, which usually dictate price!

P.S. Your reviews definitely provide a good guide to that, but at the same time I get to change my mind of which keyboard to get all the time... LOL

I have my eyes currently on a DELL AT101W, which is not very expensive and the switches feel nice heavy and tactile! It has ALPS black.

Every hobbiest should have an AT101. The chassis is outstanding and it is also a great base for modification projects.

You can pull the tops of the switch bodies and bend the leaves to make the stock switches either linear or clicky, or you can substitute parts from other Alps switches to make viable clones.

One of my favorites is a black Dell AT101W into which I transplanted orange Alps from an Apple Extended Keyboard and added a set of Dolch-style caps from Tai Hao.

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Many of the mass shooters (and "alt-right" trolls), are predominantly white men of various ages, but leaning young, fueled mainly by a belief in their own superiority and resentment of the sense that the rest of the world doesn't seem to respect it.

Mass shooters should be understood, it seems, as the radical edge of a larger trend of celebratory sadism spiked with right-wing politics – a great boiling-over of rage from young and disaffected white men who believe they are victims and take satisfaction in trying to dominate, abuse, and even assault others. This brings up extremely serious questions about the role the larger conservative movement is playing in promoting this toxicity and allowing it to fester and grow.

You need to figure out what 'feel' you like. Then you find a board you like and you'll hear about another that's similar, so you get that one. And on and on and on until you have enough for every occasion.

I feel like Omnikey is one of those must haves. I have wanted one for like 7 years and I finally got one NIB and it exceeded my expectations. I also feel like everyone should have some form of monterey keyboard or blue ALPS board too. Also an old school cherry board. There's really too many awesome old keyboards to list. Just buy them all.

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If you live in AZ you can try my keyboards. I usually keep plenty of different ALPS and MX and buckling springs.

I feel like Omnikey is one of those must haves. I have wanted one for like 7 years and I finally got one NIB and it exceeded my expectations. I also feel like everyone should have some form of monterey keyboard or blue ALPS board too. Also an old school cherry board. There's really too many awesome old keyboards to list. Just buy them all.

At this stage I am definitely leaning towards APLS and the DELL AT101W. As far as I understand the black ALPS are the clicky one from that family of switches. Are the blue linear?

I feel like Omnikey is one of those must haves. I have wanted one for like 7 years and I finally got one NIB and it exceeded my expectations. I also feel like everyone should have some form of monterey keyboard or blue ALPS board too. Also an old school cherry board. There's really too many awesome old keyboards to list. Just buy them all.

At this stage I am definitely leaning towards APLS and the DELL AT101W. As far as I understand the black ALPS are the clicky one from that family of switches. Are the blue linear?

Blue and white are clicky, orange, salmon and black are tactile, yellow and green are linear. Plus a bunch more.

If you plan on getting anything Alps, just make sure to GET A SUPER ULTRA CLEAN ONE. I can't stress this enough. It'll feel like **** if it isn't. But once you do man, it's great .

LASER keyboard with SMK 2nd Gen switches. They're outrageously clicky (described often as a "double-click") and MX compatible. I''m really hoping to one day figure out how to design a 60% PCB for the switches.

I have one of those, it is really nice. And, bonus, it is very close to true-ANSI in spite of the bigass Enter.

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Many of the mass shooters (and "alt-right" trolls), are predominantly white men of various ages, but leaning young, fueled mainly by a belief in their own superiority and resentment of the sense that the rest of the world doesn't seem to respect it.

Mass shooters should be understood, it seems, as the radical edge of a larger trend of celebratory sadism spiked with right-wing politics – a great boiling-over of rage from young and disaffected white men who believe they are victims and take satisfaction in trying to dominate, abuse, and even assault others. This brings up extremely serious questions about the role the larger conservative movement is playing in promoting this toxicity and allowing it to fester and grow.

LASER keyboard with SMK 2nd Gen switches. They're outrageously clicky (described often as a "double-click") and MX compatible. I''m really hoping to one day figure out how to design a 60% PCB for the switches.

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Those are not outrageously clicky ;p . The clicky rabbit hole goes so much deeper than that xD .

...What's the point of seeing keyboards as investments[?] You ain't gonna get rich by flipping keyboards.

That said, if you'd bought a bunch of Model F-XT's last year, you'd be pretty well off now. Because of their odd layout, they were going for $25–30. Then Chyros did his rave review, and now they're being bid up well over $100. That's not a bad return. (I keep pestering him to tell me which underappreciated vintage keeb he's going to lionize next, but he's not talking.)

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We should have some sort of crowdsourced 'stock market' like price tracker for all the most popular boards. That way, when Chyros does one of his fantastic reviews, we can precisely quantify how the market reacted. And then we can get manufacturers to send him free boards to review.

Many of the mass shooters (and "alt-right" trolls), are predominantly white men of various ages, but leaning young, fueled mainly by a belief in their own superiority and resentment of the sense that the rest of the world doesn't seem to respect it.

Mass shooters should be understood, it seems, as the radical edge of a larger trend of celebratory sadism spiked with right-wing politics – a great boiling-over of rage from young and disaffected white men who believe they are victims and take satisfaction in trying to dominate, abuse, and even assault others. This brings up extremely serious questions about the role the larger conservative movement is playing in promoting this toxicity and allowing it to fester and grow.

Every board comes with awesome doubleshot caps and you can get anything from SKCM Blue, SKCM White, or one of many clones. The older the better and also ones built in Taiwan instead of China, but I had a 95' board from China that had still had SKCM White

Their boards with built in calculators are also really cool and not too rare, but they are unreliable as **** (like most Focus stuff tbh) so they might be good for keycap and switch harvesting if you don't feel like fixing it up (probably just a ****ty controller)

Most older keyboards are simply too large to honestly be useful for most people, but not all of them. I am a huge fan of chicony since their keyboards were really compact and light weight, but still typically were rock solid. They also had some amazing stuff, like their 5591 with the integrated trackball.Currently, my favorite keyboard is a chicony 5192 with futaba ma switches. The keyboard is also light weight and is not massive in size for no reason, so it doesn't look out of place on the desk.

A lot of keyboards I would love to actually use daily are just too big and get in the way, like my AEK. Also, because of ABS yellowing, you will probably need to retrobright if the dirty looking keyboard turns you off.

Every board comes with awesome doubleshot caps and you can get anything from SKCM Blue, SKCM White, or one of many clones. The older the better and also ones built in Taiwan instead of China, but I had a 95' board from China that had still had SKCM White :confused:

Their boards with built in calculators are also really cool and not too rare, but they are unreliable as **** (like most Focus stuff tbh) so they might be good for keycap and switch harvesting if you don't feel like fixing it up (probably just a ****ty controller)

I second these. I found one locally for cheap and it's got a nice feel for a 'cheap' board. :thumb: